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Obasan
Joy Kogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Obsessed
James O. Born, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Rachel Simmons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Odds Against
Dick Francis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Off the Deep End: A Thriller
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Off With My Head
Stassi Schroeder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Of Nightingales That Weep
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Of Poseidon
Anna Banks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Of Sound Mind
Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Oh, Beautiful
John Paul Godges

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oil!
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Allan Gurganus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Old Filth
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Oleanna
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

Olympus, Texas
Stacey Swann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Omon Ra
Victor Pelevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Omoo
Herman Melville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1847

On a Pale Horse
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

On Becoming a Leader
Warren Bennis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

On Black Sisters Street
Chika Unigwe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

On Borrowed Time
Lawrence Edward Watkin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once Upon a Marigold
Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Once Upon a Quinceanera
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood
Ashley Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
Clifton L. Taulbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

On China
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

On Competition
Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

One Aladdin Two Lamps
Jeanette Winterson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

One-Bedroom Solo
Sheila Maldonado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

One Boat
Jonathan Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

One Child
Torey Hayden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

One For The Money
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One Good Dog
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Good Thing
Georgia Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

One Good Turn
Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

One Life: My Mother's Story
Kate Grenville

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

One Minute to Midnight
Nico Rosso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

One of Us
Åsne Seierstad

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

One Shot at Forever
Chris Ballard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
Robert Maurer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

One-Way
Didier Van Cauwelaert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

One Way Witch
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

One With You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

On Gold Mountain
Lisa See

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

On Hitler's Mountain
Irmgard Hunt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Only Daughter
Anna Snoekstra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Only Ever Yours
Louise O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Only the Animals
Ceridwen Dovey

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Only the Good Spy Young
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

On Sparta
Plutarch

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 100

On the Citizen: (Or: De Cive)
Thomas Hobbes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

On the Future
Martin Rees

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

On the Heavens
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 351

On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

On the Rez
Ian Frazier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

On the Water
H.M. van den Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

On the Way to the Wedding
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

On the Wings of Heroes
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

On Trails
Robert Moor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

On Wings of Blood
Briar Boleyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

On Writing Well
William Zinsser

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002

Open Book
Jessica Simpson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Openly Straight
Bill Konigsberg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Open Season
Jonathan Kellerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Operating Instructions
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Operation Nemesis
Eric Bogosian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Operation Shylock: A Confession
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Option B
Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
Gordon MacKenzie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Ordeal by Hunger
George R. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Ordeal by Innocence
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Organizational Culture and Leadership
Edgar H. Schein

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Orhan's Inheritance
Aline Ohanesian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Orientation: And Other Stories
Daniel Orozco

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Original Sin
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Oscar
Reva Marin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948